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Photo by George Guille, It's going to be a long 300km... Bolivian Amazon

I haven't been everywhere...
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Photo by George Guille
It's going to be a long 300km...
Bolivian Amazon



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Old 13 Dec 2014
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Hello

I'm new here but i would not say im new to being on a motorbike.

My name is Adam Miller, I'm not really big into on line discussions but i cant send a private message until i have posted at least 5 things on here so ill make this. Maybe ill be able to get all 5 of my posts in it.

Right so everything i have done since my unceremoniously ejection from my high school at the age of 16 has been geared towards allowing me to Travel around the world on my motorbike.

This year i finally believe i have everything i need to do it. So this is my plan. Very rough but that's the way i like it.

So I'm planning in heading to Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia not that i need to tell people here) in May Via Southern europe to see some friends then up into north Europe before heading through Belarus into Russia ill probably head to Saratov (Russia) first then onto kurgan (Russia) before crossing into Kazakhstan maybe just for a short visit before heading to Omsk (Russia)then following the road to olgii (Mongolia) then ill basicaly ride to Zuulun (Mongolia) stay there for a bit before heading to Ulaanbaatar. Ill then decide if i want to continue on up to Magadan. This will depend on how much time it has taken me to get so far and what experiences i have had on the road. If i do go to Magadan i will only be spending a week if that there just getting what ever i need done to the bike whilst I'm in civilization before spinning around and heading back to Ulaabaatar. Then I'm planning on taking the old Silk route home depending on if i can get the bike into china(not really sure if that's possible not really read anything promising about getting UK registered vehicles into it). If not it will be back to Russia via north Mongolia before heading back into Kazakhstan to do the section of the silk road that's in suthern Kazakhstan. I was originally planning on getting there ferry across the Caspian sea but i think it would be way more fun to ride around it and head to Azerbaijan then into Armenia before heading back to Europe through Turkey. Then ill just Lazily ride up through southern Europe back to the UK and then i guess i could go back to work. I have calculated that it will be between 20-25 thousand miles.

Im looking for Tips as ill be doing this trip alone.

I am a young biker only 26 but i have put at least 15,000 miles under my belt every year since i turned 17 on various types of bikes and have been doing "big" bike trips since i was 19. I have done lots of off road riding on Big bikes. I my self have 2 BMW GS's the one i intend on doing the trip on is a Water cooled 1200 GSA

So yeah if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them and if you have any advice I'm happy to accept it. Iv been looking into SPOT trackers more for my family than myself.

Thanks.

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